The Letter

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The Letter

By: Josephine Cox

Narrated by: Fran Burgoyne

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Will its words uncover a dark family secret?

Another gripping and dramatic family drama from the Sunday Times bestseller

Bella can’t wait to be married to her fiancée Sidney, and dreams of the day she will walk up the aisle to be given away by her widowed father, with her bookish sister Alice as her bridesmaid.

Their lives are disturbed when they receive a letter from their fifteen-year-old cousin Millie. Taken in by her austere aunt and uncle when her parents were killed in an accident, Millie says she is being badly treated and pleads to be rescued.

When the two sisters take a trip to find out the truth, things take a troubling turn. Millie is brought home to live with them, her only possessions her ill-fitting clothes and a tatty suitcase.

But soon they are questioning this act of kindness. Does their teenaged cousin just need some love and kindness? Or is she a troublemaker, with only mischief and malice on her mind…?

Family Life

Fiction

Friendship

Genre Fiction

Small Town & Rural

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"Thanks to her near faultless writing...readers will find it impossible to tear themselves away." (News of the World)

"Another hit for Josephine Cox." (Sunday Express)

"Cox's talent as storyteller never lets you escape the spell." (Daily Mail)

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A little bit disappointing for a Josephine cox book rather boring and long winded shame in

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Clearly this book wasn’t for me! I found the characters one-dimensional and very dull. Millie could have been more interesting had her character been developed. Did she have a special, “supernatural” gift? We never find out. There was no plot or direction. I spent the whole time waiting for something interesting to happen.
To be honest, I’m surprised it was ever published, let alone has become a bestseller. As I said, not for me!

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